Spalacomimus verruciferus (Karsch, 1887)

Material examined: all TANZANIA, all Kilimanjaro Region: 2 males [CH 7188 (SR, SF), CH 7189 (SR)], Mt Kilimanjaro, near Lake Chala (3°18’S, 37°41’E), January / February 2009, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male [CH7637 (SR, SF)], TANZANIA, Mt Kilimanjaro eastern slopes, March 2013, leg. C. Hemp; 5 males [CH 7897 (SF), CH 7904 (SR), CH 7905 (SR), CH 7906], Eastern Arc Mountains, Lembeni, North Pare, 17 xii 2014, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male (TI) , Lake Chala, Mt Kilimanjaro eastern slopes, September 2015, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male (SR) , South Pare Mts, Mt. Vumari, November 2021, leg. C. Hemp.

References: Hemp 2021

Bioacoustics. The species is bioacoustically quite similar to S. stettinensis . The echemes seem to be shorter by a factor of two (only 19 syllables per echeme) and the echeme repetition rate is correspondingly faster (Fig. 10H; see Table 2).

Genitalia. In size, the genitalic sclerites (Fig. 11E) are similar to that of S. stettinensis and S. talpa . The main part of the titillator, however, is not broad, but triangular and the lateral sclerites are intermediate between the other two species in size.

Chromosomes: 2n = 24 (22 + neo-XY), FN = 25; pairs 1–11 acrocentric, neo-X submetacentric and neo-Y acrocentric [one male: CH 7897 and three males described earlier ( Warchałowska et al. 2015: CH 7188, CH 7189, CH 7637)]; thin C-positive paracentromeric bands in all autosomes, thick on both the neo-X and the neo-Y, as well as an interstitial one on the long pair (Fig. 12J) .